18 travel quotes that remind us to live our lives to the fullest

THERE ARE FEW THINGS we do in our lives that wind up changing how we see the world. There are few things that can be measured in unexpected friendships, new tastes, adrenaline rushes, and lifelong memories. Even fewer have the capacity to make us kinder, confident, and more resourceful. Travel might be the only one.

The flip side is that it isn’t always easy. It’s navigating maps, new cultures, new customs, new roads. It’s full of strange faces, strange flavors, and strange places. But the reward? Inspiration to live our lives to the fullest.

Here are 18 insightful travel quotes that remind us to do just that.

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“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.”

“Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.”

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”

“Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.”

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”